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Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:08:27 +0300
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Subject: Re: BinUtils (miscellaneous)
From: Ozkan Sezer <sezeroz AT gmail DOT com>
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On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi> wrote:
> On 07/01/2011 09:56 AM, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>>
>> On 07/01/2011 09:47 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Andris Pavenis<andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 06/30/2011 11:33 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    (Note to DJ: I know you're probably VERY busy, and I think even an
>>>>>> email or two to you bounced recently, ugh. So feel free to ignore
>>>>>> this. And yes I see your online compiler thingy hack is offline too,
>>>>>> heh.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I upgraded delorie.com and a few things stopped working.  I need
>>>>> to build a newer compiler anyway, I think that one is still gcc 2.7 !
>>>>
>>>> Not as I really use online compiler feature, but my cross-compiler
>>>> RPMs (all latest versions including not yet announced 4.6.1) is
>>>> expected to work without problems in Linux distribution installed
>>>> currently on delorie.com. So hopefully there is no need to build a
>>>> new cross-compiler as one can simply install RPM packages.
>>>>
>>>
>>> A little side tracking:
>>>
>>> Andris:  I'm using your src rpms as a reference for my own djgpp stuff.
>>> However I wonder what is the purpose of djcross-binutils-coffcode.diff ?
>>> It conditionally defines COFF_PAD_SECTION_HEADERS and compiles
>>> some extra code, however __MSDOS__ is never defined and the code
>>> is never compiled. Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>
>> It was intended to avoid putting random garbage from memory into
>> executable.
>>
>> You do not need to define __MSDOS__. DJGPP port of GCC does it for You
>>
>> [andris AT ap2 ~]$ i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-gcc -E -dD -x c /dev/null | grep MSDOS
>> #define __MSDOS 1
>> #define __MSDOS__ 1
>> #define MSDOS 1
>>
>> Andris
>>
> Forgot to mention: it was for native binutils only, but I prefer to have the
> same source also
> for cross-binutils. In future I may add sometimes building native binutils
> for DJGPP when
> building cross-binutils RPMs (perhape not enabled by default, would require
> something like --define 'build_native 1' in rpmbuild command line)
>


I really am using cross tools only. So, that part isn't actually needed
for cross toolchains, am I reading you correctly?


> Andris
>
>

--
Ozkan